Exterior view of the Cardenas Hotel, in Trinidad (Las Animas County), Colorado. This Fred Harvey hotel is a two story, mission style structure that features an arcaded porch, gabled terra-cotta roof, balcony, square tower with a domed roof, arched entries, and a portico. Letters over the entrance read "Cardenas." Railroad tracks of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company and the Purgatoire (Purgatory) River front the hotel. A man stands by a wagon near an entryway. The Park Street School, Tillotson Academy, Lutheran Church, Methodist Church, and Prospect Point are in the distance.